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The United States Thursday warned Central American families to stop sending their unaccompanied children across the Mexican border into the United States, calling the trip dangerous and pointless. These children will not be granted residency,...

Amsha’s family decided to leave the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar after shelling one night killed their neighbour as he used his outdoor toilet. The 24-year-old now lives in a tent with the other eight members of her family at the...

A poorly worded conservative attempt to prevent the District of Columbia from decriminalizing marijuana could have an unintended consequence — the legalization of marijuana in D.C. Maryland Republican Representative Andy Harris (pictured...

PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – Advocates of legal recreational marijuana in Oregon plan to submit a ballot petition with more than 145,000 signatures on Thursday to force a vote in November on legalizing pot. “We are confident that our...

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. healthcare companies are winning higher profit forecasts, bucking a wider trend on Wall Street, as pricey new biotech drugs hit the market and insurance enrollment rises under the...

(Reuters) – Los Angeles police said they had killed a shoplifting suspect in a residential neighborhood late on Wednesday evening after he opened fire in a nearby mall at a security guard who had confronted him. Police flooded a...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google has begun removing some search results to comply with a European Union ruling upholding citizens’ right to have objectionable personal information about them hidden in search engines. The so-called...

On Wednesday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert discussed the crisis of children from Central America illegally crossing the U.S. border and being detained in Texas. “I only bring this up,” Colbert began,...

A three-course lunch hosted by an eccentric Chinese millionaire for 250 homeless New Yorkers in a posh restaurant degenerated into fury Wednesday when guests were denied $300 cash handouts. It had seemed such a good idea. Recycling tycoon Chen...

Tea Party Republicans in Mississippi on Wednesday railed against an election rule that allowed Democrats, many of them black, to tilt a bitterly fought Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff to incumbent Thad Cochran. But officials said the fuss...

President Barack Obama lampooned congressional skepticism over climate change on Wednesday, saying that lawmakers who balk at tackling air pollution are either blind to science or cowed by extremists. In a speech to the League of Conservation...

Sydney (AFP) – Jailed Australian Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste has stated he was “outraged” at being sentenced to seven years by an Egyptian court, saying the case was about silencing critical voices. “I am...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a controversy over the tax agency’s treatment of Tea Party groups sent emails in which she appears to seek an audit involving a Republican...

(Reuters) – A drone that spooked a Seattle woman in her apartment and prompted a police probe of possible invasion of privacy was not trying to catch an illicit image but rather shooting a panoramic view for a developer, the company that...

London (AFP) – France strongly attacked the US-based body that assigns internet addresses on Wednesday, saying it was not a fit venue for internet governance and that alternatives should be sought. The eurozone’s second-largest...